I am trying to solve a problem where users sometimes include an extra space in their search terms, or alternatively a space was missing in the search term compared to what is in the index. In order to do this, I attempted to use the shingle filter with an empty separator so each pair of words is inc…

I took a look at s imple query string docs , The WHITESPACE flag in your request is causing the issue: WHITESPACE Enables whitespace as split characters.

Shingle filter to allow mismatching spaces

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Mark_Harwood (Mark Harwood) October 30, 2020, 6:03pm 2

Hi Andrew. See Query connected and seperated words (ie: everybody - every body)

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Shingle filter to allow mismatching spaces

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